September 17, 2011: Why Rick Perry Gets it very wrong about Israel Palestine
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry has been to Israel more than any other presidential candidate
and he believes he’s on a mission from God. In
his 11 years in office he also wrested much power away from that states
Legislature.
This
citizen of conscience for US House of Representatives has been to Israel seven
times since 2005, but I spent my time in occupied Palestine, on my mission from
God: seek truth and report it! When
Perry led a delegation to Israel in 2009, he told The Jerusalem Post, the alliance was a natural one, “When I was
here for the first time some 18 years ago and I was touring the country, the
comparison between Masada and the Alamo was not lost on me. I mean, we're
talking about two groups of people who were willing to give up their lives for
freedom and liberty." [1]
Denial
is safe harbor for those who cannot bear the light of truth, and
only the blind miss the glaring similarities of what European colonists did to
the Native Americans and what Israel has done to the indigenous Palestinians.
Perry’s
recent opine piece for The Jerusalem Post, “The Palestinians’
illegitimate UN gambit” follows with my corrections to this presidential candidates
misunderstandings. PERRY:
“Our nations have developed vital economic and security relationships in an
alliance based on shared democratic principles, deep cultural ties and common
strategic interests.” [2]
On
May 28, 1993 Ariel Sharon explained:
"The terms
'democracy' or 'democratic' are totally absent from the Declaration of
Independence. This is not an accident. The intention of Zionism was not to
bring democracy, needless to say. It was solely motivated by the creation in
Eretz-Isrel of a Jewish state belonging to all the Jewish people and to the
Jewish people alone. This is why any Jew of the Diaspora has the right to
immigrate to Israel and to become a citizen of Israel." Indeed America and Israel’s
economies are both tied to an Industrial Government Military SECURITY/Surveillance Complex and the poor keep getting poorer while the
merchants of war are kept fat and happy.
PERRY:
“The Jewish state faces growing hostility from Turkey. Its three decade-old
peace with Egypt hangs by a thread. Iran pursues nuclear weapons its leaders vow
to use to annihilate Israel.”
It was President Harry Truman who crossed out the word “Jewish state” on the draft of the Establishment of Israel that
was cabled him and substituted “State
of Israel” which he affirmed was contingent upon Israel upholding the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Read
more...
Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, Yitzhak Levanon, fled to Israel following
protests that erupted after Israel failed to apologize for murdering nine Turkish
humanitarian activists and killings five Egyptian Policemen. Some of
Egypt’s political parties have also called for changes to the country's 1979
peace treaty with Israel.
The
planned demonstrations in Jordan at the Israeli embassy in Amman on Thursday forced
Israel to pull its ambassador and staff out as the people called for ending the
shameful "peace treaty". In
2006, Virginia Tilley, Professor of political science explained:
"In his
October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word 'map' or the term 'wiped
off.' According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing
services like MEMRI, what he actually said was 'this regime that is occupying
Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'
"In this speech to an annual anti-Zionist conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad was
being prophetic, not threatening. He was citing Imam Khomeini, who said this
line in the 1980s-a period when Israel was actually selling arms to Iran, so
apparently it was not viewed as so ghastly then.
"Mr. Ahmadinejad had just reminded his audience that the Shah's regime,
the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein had all seemed enormously powerful and
immovable, yet the first two had vanished almost beyond recall and the third
now languished in prison.
"So, too, the 'occupying regime' in Jerusalem would someday be gone. His
message was, in essence: 'This too shall pass.'" PERRY:
“And now, the Palestinian leadership is intent on trashing the possibility of a
negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel in favor of unilateral
recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. The Palestinian plan…threatens
Israel and insults the United States…They seem to prefer theatrics in New York
to the hard work of negotiation and compromise that peace will require.” What
decades of negotiations and the “peace process” have wrought is to disseminate
the so-called holy land into pieces!
What
threatens Israel is being held accountable and responsible for a 44-year
military occupation; whereas under international law occupations are to be
temporary and occupiers are not to pilfer resources, colonize or build a wall
on land that belongs to the occupied.
"Financed
with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile. The Israeli wall prevents
residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other
areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been
their families' sole livelihood for generations." [3]
PERRY:
“It was a mistake to inject an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem,
as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership
had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement
activity. When the Obama administration demanded a settlement freeze, it led to
a freeze in Palestinian negotiations.”
Obama’s mistake was backing down and negotiations must be done between equal
players; but these two sides have never been equal players and the US has never been an honest broker for justice that will lead to peace.
PERRY:
“In refusing to deal with the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and
taking this destabilizing action in the UN, the Palestinians are signaling that
they have no interest in a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership’s
insistence on the so-called ‘right of return’ of descendants of Palestinian
refugees to Israel’s sovereign territory, thereby making Jews an ethnic
minority in their own state, is a disturbing sign that the ultimate Palestinian
‘solution’ remains the destruction of the Jewish state.”
Refusing
to recognize the rights of the indigenous people of the so-called holy land is
what has destabilized the Middle East.
And as Israel’s nuclear whistle-blower,
Mordechai Vanunu said, “Israel is not a democracy unless you are a Jew.” [4]
The
“so called right of return” is what Zionists claim for any Jew without any historical
connection to that land to come and colonize upon legally owned Palestinian
property.
The establishment of the State of Israel was
contingent upon upholding the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, which enshrines:
Article 13.
(1)
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders
of each state. (2) Everyone has the
right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
PERRY: “The circumvention of serious negotiations by PA President Mahmoud Abbas
demonstrates a basic failure of leadership and a betrayal of the true interests
of the Palestinian people.”
The
Palestinian Civil Society Calls for:
(1) Ending the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling
the Wall. (2)
Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel
to full equality. (3)
Respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to
return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
PERRY: “Since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, the US has provided more
than $4 billion in aid to the Palestinian Authority. This year alone the Obama
administration is seeking to secure $550 million in funding for Palestinians.”
By all accounts the United States has given more money to Israel than to any
other country. The Congressional Research Service’s conservative estimate of
total cumulative US aid to Israel (not adjusted for inflation) from 1949
through 2010 is $109.001 billion.
PERRY: “The United States must not condone and legitimize through our
assistance a regime whose actions are in direct opposition to a peace agreement
with our ally Israel, and in direct opposition to our own vital interests.”
Our vital interests should be what is best for all Americans first and the “special
relationship” with Israel has become a liability for US!
Khalid
Sheikh Mohammad involvement in the terror upon America, “By his own account
stemmed from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring
Israel.” [5]
Abdulmutallab’s attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, was fueled
by “his sympathies toward the Palestinians and anger over Israel’s actions in
Gaza.” [Ibid]
Of the 193 UN members, 122 already recognize Palestinian
statehood. Israel has diplomatic relations with 156 states. The Palestinians have rightly lost faith in the leaders of
the West to be honest brokers for justice that could bring peace, and the
showdown on 20 September at the UN-the body that partitioned the land and thus
is very responsible for the ongoing disaster is the very body that must
intervene. Recognition of a Palestinian state in the UN will not end
the military occupation, but it will gain virtual citizenship, a passport and
sovereignty, legal protection against violence by Israeli settlers, the right
to fight back in self-defense if attacked and potential backing for their
claims from international tribunals such as the International Criminal Court
and the International Court of Justice.
"The
age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age
calls for a different kind of leadership. A leadership of intellect, judgment,
tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world
peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which
we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of
intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between
cultures." –William Fulbright
This Citizen of
CONSCIENCE for House of Representatives 2012 is in solidarity with that!
1. http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=233871 2. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=238144 3. Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs,
Page 43, Jan/Feb. 2007 4. BEYOND
NUCLEAR: Mordechai
Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker:
2005-2010 5. Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs, March 2010, page 35
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